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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, my sweet, summer child. Maybe not phone calls (yet?), but they sell lots of other data they maintain about you. Location data, specifically, is a hot seller.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that where Google Maps gets traffic data from?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes and no. Google definitely uses location data to improve traffic details, but GPS has always been able to get some level of data about it, despite being mostly a one way system. I don't really remember the details, I'll try to dig out an article